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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
People
Sometimes
Political
Matter
Perspective
Picture
Organic
Part
Haiti
Missing
Look
Most
Also
Understand
Caused
Brain
May
Just
Want
Psychological
Psychology
Means
Who
Suffer
Amnesia
Injury
Elite
Damage
Need
I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Vote
People
Care
Respected
See
Haiti
Know
Democratic
Principle
How
American
Want
American People
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
People
Destiny
Haiti
Suffer
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
World
Elsewhere
Never
Had
Exile
Years
Account
Frozen
Either
Switzerland
I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Democratic
Democratic Process
Process
Who
Initiated
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Financial
Imagination
Laugh
Never
Had
Said
Hear
Get
Where
Means
Media
Amount
Million
I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Government
Time
Sadness
Opportunity
Those
Rightly
More
Take
Feel
Countrymen
Were
Want
Victims
Who
Deep
Express
There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Day
Thought
One Day
About
Since
Haiti
Been
Left
All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Politics
Time
My Time
Takes
Know
Most
Nonstop
Up
Really
The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
Jenny Shipley
Work
Time
Opportunity
Think
Progressive
Way
Out
Ongoing
Something
Open
Over
Sorted
Understand
Issue
Issues
Australia
Skies
Us
Need
I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
Jenny Shipley
Life
Me
You
See
Permissive
Being
Anyone
Actually
Assist
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Jenny Shipley
Peace
Women
Equality
Will
Point
Point Of View
Development
Understood
However
Achieved
View
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Jenny Shipley
Change
Peace
Women
Too
Medium
Secure
Secure Peace
Has-Been
Must
Structures
Attempt
Term
Stewardship
Arrangements
Been
Male
Dominated
Often
Short
Informal
Which
While
Decision-Making
Used
Mechanisms
Expressed
Desire
The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley
Hope
Great
President
Our
States
Great Hope
Weapons
Had
Put
Halt
Issue
Testing
Behind
Decided
Pacific
Former
Region
Us
Nuclear
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Jenny Shipley
Wisdom
Peace
Courage
Secure
Takes
Maintain
Thing
Fragile
Fragile Thing
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
Jenny Shipley
Women
Will
Gender
Community
Out
Adoption
Clear
Clear Message
Message
Against
Declaration
Sent
International
Tolerated
International Community
Based
Elimination
Violence
I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
Jenny Shipley
Future
Change
People
Problem
Try
Few
Whatever
Politicians
Say
Solution
Find
About
Shape
Wrong
Look
Well
Talking
Got
Climate
Climate Change
Scientist
Hear
Up
So Many People
Whether
Who
Many
Prepared
Keep
Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
Jenny Shipley
Politics
Future
Me
Markets
Emerging
Drives
Shaping
Since
Left
Very
Interested
Much
Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.
Jenny Shipley
Women
Value
Men
Add
Tell
Shameless
Know
How
Encourage
Women Are
Selling
Often
Story
Then
Strategically
Reserved
Need
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
Jenny Shipley
Success
Me
People
Mother
Think
Pleasure
Having
Fact
Like
Greatest
Been
Greatest Pleasure
Often
In Fact
Ordinary
Lives
Career
The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
Jenny Shipley
Day
You
Political
Leader
First
Beginning
Political Career
End
Your
Career
I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
Jim Bolger
Time
You
Think
Type
Worm
Response
No Time
Instant
Answers
Target
Very
Get
Polling
Mean
Manipulative
Really
Your
And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.
Jim Bolger
Pressure
Whatever
Think
More
Delivery
Put
Support
Ideas
Principle
Policy
Improve
Articulating
Rolling
Sustain
Polls
Them
Beliefs
Garner
Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.
Jim Bolger
Memory
Think
Everybody
Settled
Rapidly
Unprecedented
Some
Date
Reminder
Looks
Issues
Very
May
Move
Public
Might
Therefore
Earlier
And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.
Jim Bolger
Saying
You
People
Believe
Enormous
Month
Out
Something
Direction
More
Volatile
Most
Dealing
Does
Coming
Than
Getting
Poll
After
Then
Electorate
Sudden
Swing
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
Jim Bolger
Politics
Time
People
Go Away
Think
Input
New
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Nonsense
Go
Time People
Ban
Dominant
Articulate
From Time To Time
Quite
Wont
Polls
Should
View
Fascinating
Away
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